ジョン・H・デフォレストの「夫婦大学」と「親子大学」

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• John H. DeForest (1844-1911) came to Japan as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1874 and stayed in Japan until his death in 1911. During his life of 37 years in Japan, he published together about 30 tracts and books in Japanese. The True Argument on the Ten Commandments (1881) was one of them. The book bitterly criticized Japanese people and their society, making unfavorable comparisons with those of an idealized American middle-class in the Victorian period. It consisted of nine tracts, which had been published previously. This paper focuses on two of them- "Hu-hu Daigaku" (Teachings on Marriage) and "Oyako Daigaku" (Teachings on Parent-Children Relationships)-and investigates how DeForest's ideas about family were reflected in them. In "Hu-hu Daigaku," DeForest advocated for a Christian-family lifestyle of the time, emphasizing both the necessity of courtship and romance before marriage and the creation of a monogamous nuclear family. DeForest may have had some obligation to discuss the topic of filial piety in "Oyako Daigaku," but he chose to put it aside and took up the importance of childrearing and education for discussion instead. This paper also exhibits the fact that DeForest capitalized on the internally generated push for Westernization occurring in early Meiji-era Japan and demonstrates how his confidence in the superiority of Western familial relations influenced on his discussion.

• 2012-03-05

著者

• 戸田 徹子

  山梨県立大学 国際政策学部 国際コミュニケーション学科

• 戸田 徹子

  山梨県立大学国際政策学部国際コミュニケーション学科

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